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Reading(non-fiction and fiction), staying up too late reading, sleeping late because I stayed up too late. Spending a little time with my wife(she's the one standing in the pic below, and below that she's enjoying a Root Beer Float at Fitz's on our trip to St Louis on May 9 06), whenever her mother, who lives with us, gives her any free time.

I like working on my flowers and fountains and roses in the yard. More thunderstorms, please.

Playing our sweet little 1951 Martin 00-18 ..S/N 119467

or I play my Ovation.

I like photography I took this pic of Vesuvius in 1968.

- I like genealogy, too. DNA informs me that my paternal ancestors were Anglo-Saxons who arrived in England around 400 AD and my many gggggrandfather William Rose arrived in Virginia before 1650.

Art and painting. I painted this several years ago

My kids at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1989, I've been working on a painting of this for a LONG time

BOOMER SOONER, I am a proud alumnus (fyi, alumni is plural, alumna is feminine, please get it right)

I like Studebakers. We had a 1951 Commander

when I was little, then we had a '62 Lark, but I have always wanted a Studebaker Avanti like the '63 model shown below

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I loved to play baseball when I was a kid. My team when I was 12, the Nichols Hills Rattlesnakes

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Now Let's go to Benny Goodman and Peggy Lee

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Everything from Bach to Beatles

to REM and some alternative, but no Hip-Hop. I admit I like Abba, Steve Miller, CSN&Y, Roy Orbison, Eagles, Fleetwood Mac, Dire Straits, the Zombies, I love this song

Billy J Kramer And The Dakotas - Bad To Me st use me.mp3

, alsothe Mavericks, the Platters, Helen Forrest ..http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=62070047> with Benny Goodman or Artie Shaw or Harry James

Video with Artie Shaw and Helen Forrest, one of my favorite voices

I love Scott Joplin's "Swipesy"

"Willin'" is a great song.

One of my favorite music videos ever

Also: Songs based around a Major7 chord - e.g. Tin Man; Lyin' Eyes, Scotch & Soda, Make it With You, Magnolia Tell Her No verse 1: [Cmaj7]And if she should tell you "come [Dm7]closer"[G13] [Cmaj7]And if she tempts you with her ch[Dm7]arms[G13] chorus 1: [Am] Tell her no no no no no-no-no-no [C] No no no no no-no-no-no [Am]No no no no no Don't [Cmaj7]hurt me now for her [Dm7]love bel[G13]ongs to [Cmaj7]me Love featuring Arthur Lee - ..

Scotch & Soda (Kingston Trio) [Fmaj7]Scotch and soda, mud [Bb7]in you eye. [C]Baby do I feel high, [Am7] oh me oh my[D7] [G7] do I feel high[E7]. [Fmaj7]Dry martini, ji[Bb7]gger of gin [C]oh, what a spell you've got me [Am7] in, oh my[D7] [G7] do I feel high[E7].

My hearing was affected by listening to the Doors with headphones at high volume

Can't leave out the Moody Blues, can I?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mP6-j9pxTGI

Don Rich, a great guitarist, harmonizes beautifully with Buck, A Mathis Brothers Production, I'm an Okie.

The above video introduction was the voice of the OKC DJ legend, Danny Williams, also my childhood TV hero, 3D Danny

http://www.dddynamo.com/

I proudly wore a 3D Danny patch on my jacket as a 6 year-old. Early 50's live TV was great. Channel 4 in OKC was WKY then, the first TV station west of the Mississippi.

Wendy Hiller (you must see her as Eliza Doolittle in Pygmalion!)

...(and Veronica Lake

and Susan Hayward

and MY WIFE

..Natalie Wood

Caroline Munro

and Joi Lansing

and Anjanette Comer

NOT in that order,LINDA is my only #1) now that we have that out of the way ...

MOVIES

HARVEY(Elwood P. Dowd -"Years ago my mother used to say to me, she'd say, "In this world, Elwood, you must be" - she always called me Elwood - "In this world, you must be oh so smart or oh so pleasant." Well, for years I was smart. I recommend pleasant. And you may quote me."

Pygmalion with Leslie Howard and Wendy Hiller "A lot of women has to make their husbands drunk to make them fit to live with" "Not bloody likely, I'm going in a taxi!" You have to understand that the work "bloody"then would be like using the F word today

, Casablanca (Rick -"I'm no good at being noble, but it doesn't take much to see that the problems of three little people don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world. Someday you'll understand that. Now, now... Here's looking at you kid.)

Oh Brother, Where Art Thou - "We thoouught you wuuzzz a ttoadddd".

The funnniest movie I've ever seen: It's a Gift with W C Fields there are too many marvelous scenes from this movie to post, like "Don't strike that child!""He's not gonna tell me I don't love him!"

One of the best follows,trying to get a little sleep, "It's not a night for love"

Mr Muckle, the blind man

Groundhog Day, (Phil:Do you ever have deja vu Mrs. Lancaster? Mrs. Lancaster: I don't think so, but I could check with the kitchen.)

Tombstone (Ike Clanton:What is that Holiday? Twelve hands in a row? Ain't nobody that lucky. Doc Holliday: Why Ike, whatever do you mean? Maybe poker's just not your game. I know! Let's have a spelling contest!)

Howard Hawks' "Rio Bravo", also one of Quentin Tarantino's 3 favorite films, see Walter Brennan's John Wayne impersonation below :)

The High and the Mighty.

The MARVELOUS Joe vs the Volcano (Mr. Waturi: I know he can get the job, but can he do the job?)

(Marshall:What kinda clothes do you got now? Joe Banks: Well, I got the kinda clothes I'm wearing. Marshall: So you got no clothes.")

(Patricia - "My father says that almost the whole world is asleep. Everybody you know. Everybody you see. Everybody you talk to. He says that only a few people are awake and they live in a state of constant total amazement.);

I love "The Wizard of Oz"

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Pete Kelly's Blues, w/ Peggy Lee, Ella Fitzgerald, Jack Webb and some GREAT MUSIC and Peggy Lee's Oscar winning performance

.. "Pete Kelly:You better go outside and get Joey. Al Gannaway: What's wrong with him? Pete Kelly: It's raining on him."

Charlie Chaplin was the best

FANDANGO - "Judy: Then she had her utopian tubes removed. Gardner: "No That's fallopian darlin'. Judy: Fallopian? Them's books of the bible silly... first and second fallopians!

; Arsenic & Old Lace "Dr Einstein (Peter Lorre):Where am I? Oh, here I am."

; The Quiet Man; The Red Violin;

The Beatles - HELP! "It's a thingy, a fiendish thingy!"

This movie has so many wonderful little gems in it, here is just a glimpse"

Too many to list; my father worked for a movie theater company & I grew up going to "the screening" every Thursday night from infancy through High School. I love movies.

Lost

Smallville

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Battlestar Galactica

All Along the Watchtower plays a big role in the last episode of Season 3 - Season 4 begins early 2008. The guy that posted the video below put it together in November '06, BEFORE anyone knew the song would be part of the show, weird, huh? You MUST watch this show. Resistance is futile.

How could they cancel "Dead Like Me" AND "Firefly"? Here are some bits from "Firefly" and the movie that followed "Serenity" - First some laughs, then River Tam kicks ass

George Reeves was cool as

Superman .. The Twilight Zone; The History Channel; The Science Channel; What Not to Wear; House Hunters; Enterprise

; "Cancer Ward" by Solzhenitsyn

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"Memories" by Mike McQuay.

Does Hamlet count as a book?

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"The Worst Journey in the World" by dear Cherry (Apsley Cherry-Garrard) is the BEST travel book ever written

"Polar exploration is at once the cleanest and most isolated way of having a bad time which has been devised."

"The temperature was -66° when we camped, and we were already pretty badly iced up. That was the last night I lay (I had written slept) in my big reindeer bag without the lining of eider-down which we each carried. For me it was a very bad night: a succession of shivering fits which I was quite unable to stop, and which took possession of my body for many minutes at a time until I thought my back would break, such was the strain placed upon it. They talk of chattering teeth: but when your body chatters you may call yourself cold."

"Face to face with real death one does not think of the things that torment the bad people in the tracts, and fill the good people with bliss. I might have speculated on my chances of going to Heaven; but candidly I did not care. I could not have wept if I had tried. I had no wish to review the evils of my past. But the past did seem to have been a bit wasted. The road to Hell may be paved with good intentions: the road to Heaven is paved with lost opportunities. I wanted those years over again. What fun I would have with them: what glorious fun! It was a pity. Well has the Persian said that when we come to die we, remembering that God is merciful, will gnaw our elbows with remorse for thinking of the things we have not done for fear of the Day of Judgment."

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; anything by Raymond Chandler, but I think "the Big Sleep" is still my favorite; "Family Tree" by Sherri S Tepper; Robert McCammon's "Swan Song" is hard to beat.

Camus, "La Chute" (The Fall) - "I shall tell you a great secret my friend - Do not wait for the Last Judgement - It takes place EVERY day"

Ulysses S Grant,

my mother Vivian Leone Matthews R___

My great-great-grandfather, Absalom John "Jack" Matthews (Mathus in the gov't records), who left his pregnant wife and safe home in Illinois in September 1862 to join the 110th Illinois Volunteer Infantry to end slavery and save the Union (he returned home safely in June 1865 having fought at Stone's River, Chickamauga, and Sherman's March to the Sea and marched in the Grand Review in Washington DC in May 1865 http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilcivilw/reg_html/110_reg.htm , his daughter, Sarah Jane was born 3 Mar 1863, and his son, my grt-grandfather was born 16 Apr 1866 ); Winston Churchill, Clark Kent, The Lone Ranger

My Dad

My grandmother, Emily Florence, who wrote hundreds of poems and songs.

Her second of four daughters, Edith,

died of leukemia in 1938, two months short of her 17th birthday. My grandmother wrote this: EVERY DAY SEEMS LISTENING (FOR ONE LONG GONE) When every day seems listening

for echoes of your laughter;

when sunshine searches all the garden through,

but cannot find your shadow

to go dancing, dancing after;

how can I ever hope to still my hungering for you?

How wean my heart from your small hands--

twin emissaries, bearing

order and peace to everything they touch?

Dear, willing hands, commissioned

by your own insistent caring

so much for all a home could mean, so very, very much!

Re-ordering a jumbled room

to freshness like a flower,

dusting the pantry, polishing a chair,

coaxing a small rock garden

to a very fairy bower;

or stitching dainty garments for a child or doll to wear.

Your happy ministry of love,

a rich, a priceless treasure,

an often rifled, never lessened store

of memories that overflow

its full-to-bursting measure--

How can it all be prisoned by that, oh so silent door?

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